Server problems

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by mplostcause

I've only tried two builds, the 0.7.0 (I used the EQEmuServerPack-3.52 thats linked on the how to create a 0.7.0 windows server guide that you linked from wiki) and the latest build on the downloads page. With the fresh install of 0.7.0 I get the world.exe crashes when you select the server in the server select screen and when I updated to the newest build I get zone is unavaliable message all the time. What I am going to do is I am going to do a completely fresh install with just the outline of how you are suppose to do it using the http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...indowsServer70 guide. After I do a completely fresh install with no changes to the database other than what the EQEmuServerPack-3.52 has it in and will try to work from there. The server I have up now I have changed numerous times over the last few days trying to get this worked out. As far as computer it is a Windows XP computer with SP2 with a P3 processor. I really appreciate the help you are giving me and hopefully I'll end up getting this thing working correctly =)

Sorry to ask more questions, but i'm trying to figure out an answer for you;
What speed is you P3 CPU and how much memory do you have installed? also, I take you have installed MySQL 4x and Perl first?

[mplostcause]

I have no problems with questions =) ask away. The ram on the computer is 256mb, the procressor is only 1ghz. I decided to use the computer in question because it isn't very useful to me gaming anymore so I just let it sit around =P. And I did install mysql and perl first just as instructed in the guide.

[Angelox]

The speed is ok, I'm running it with a P3 870 MhZ - but I think you may have too little ram. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I inderstood the zones load up into memory, and need a lot of it. I have 1.25 GB of Ram in mine. Probably your 256mb is getting mostly ate up by your XP OS.

[Angelox]

Email me when you can, I have more help for you, but this freaking forum is not letting me make long post

[Angelox]

I know I already emailed you this, but now I'm testing to see if I can post again,
and this might be of interest to someone else

You could try this but like I said, 256 mb is probably way to little ram
Run MSCONFIG, go to startup and services tabs, disable as much as you can there. I do this anyways, as it helps speed up my system and hopefully free up more ram. here's a starting point for this,
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/window...rvices_disable
Also, for example, if you have a router, then you don't really need the windows firewall, router has it's own firewall, disable it in MSCONFIG.
Everquest recomends you use at least 500 mb of ram to run the client, so you know if you run the client on your EQEMU server machine, it's going to hog up you memory also. You should try login from another machine in the LAN .

edit;
I got rid of all my parenthesis, and it finally posted.

[InsaneWallaby]

Toldya them parenthesis were the problem. Anywho, I have 256 SDRAM on my server, and it runs peachy, even if I'm doing Java programming (which, as we all know, chews through memory with a compiler) while waiting to regen. Yeah, my RAM sucks; it's not even DDR, and now they've got DDR2 and whatnot...accepting RAM donations, no live animals please =P...but seriously, my computer has a faster processor than that, but it is pretty crappy when it comes to RAM. Try the hilted version of the server out if you haven't. My server failed to work until I used it.

[mplostcause]

Just an update but Angelox and I have been exchanging emails and my server is on up and running. Many thanks to him =)